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9/7/2012 4:24PM

A Final Curtain for Political Conventions?

Were the Democratic and Republican conventions this year the the last of the big-time conventions? A move to scale back federal funding and other developments are prompting the parties to rethink their holding such huge gatherings, as Neil King explains on The News Hub.

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to end the week when the kick off ... with ... what the generals Neil King and Washington D C who was so why is the conventions relating to show us ... the still survive congratulations so ... your brand ... very interesting things about how we might not see such big conventions in the future ... he is convinced they're big they're on we'll be in their last allows consequential for all the cost that goes into them ... and coming out of both of them is a lot of talk about who we really wanna continue doing it the same way you know in ... in Tampa ... I is that the Hurricane Isaac meant to ... eliminate one entire day of the convention and ... there was a sigh of relief more than anything that that didn't try ... and in others a lot of ferment ... which is going to be increasing going forward about how to rethink these things ... on the top of a hundred and twenty million dollars each ... a less than half of that came from private sources the rest came from taxpayers ... and the big kids go to the moment ... is the portion Congress ... to eliminate Elisa portion of a public subsidy which is almost certain to go away ... and not in Soho for even more ... of an onus on the private donors and Braves all of our questions about whether this whole thing makes sense and Dom that public interest in them is actually ... considerably lower than it was a according to what the Fed is in my hands and I mean seventy six ... aam of the of all TV equipped households watched for hours Friday was the chef Alice ... amass a lesson and now it's less than a fifth ... yes it's true I mean there is less to watch in those days ... are invited at all times and then the property riveting convention in nineteen seventy six it's actually went down to the wire ... but the reality is that the networks are giving way way on fewer Airtime basically an hour for three nights and that to you know for you to the two ... and did less of a lot more going on a lot more distractions up ... and that's one of the reasons that people are free and trying to figure out wall or is this really the right way that we wanted to ... aam was the fact that the parties themselves ... the parties but the donors for those parties ... are having to put that much more money ... into these things so there's a mention proposals are floating around ... one of them would be is ... to basically bring it down to like a number of events that would be in different cities ... but without all infrastructure surrounding them ... the return of coal in a Hindu final nominating night just one night ... in the big players like Madison Square Garden or something ... I were utilities and media focus but without having this ... huge ... of you know ... Khan a police state that we all saw above the city is ... so into some was still doing my best with what we did this when when when did in nineteen fifty SEO which has some long before even I was born ... I'm ... I'm in you mention some idea ideas but so the future though and considering more how important is the media aspect to this to both posses ... well it's huge I mean the reality is that these campaigns drag on forever but it's just the sort of ... various moments in an obviously the primary debates a lot of people watched those ... are there other kind of campaign events for the moment for you to feel the really break through won two national TV and talk to people of the party of the nominee for an hour which is what we've seen repeatedly over the last week ... is really really big and is the moment for the party ... now only on TV but to pray and all the other media that were down in the two cities to really focus on that and write the balloon the stories of all of us out ... not on the airwaves in saying this but the Democrats are saying this but the Republicans are saying ... this is the live in the background of their nominees ... I mean that's Fusion that there's no way the parties want to get that out ... there to strike for how to do with a less costly way and maybe in a more concentrated more assertive focused way ... now that ... I know that that Macomb engines can be grueling for politics DRAM report says ... aam what he said a suggestion that maybe ... when you were never as ... I have small more hope than reality maybe you hope ... one day like this ... one you can tell us is the CMA ... it's just me projecting I know this is this is the ... of the arteries or weary reporter not be enough the Republicans actually got a task force there for me there they have a date certain sometime next year I think where ... they've got to come for you ... well how else might we do ... so it's not just all of us was full people thinking that maybe